WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders unveiled a plan Wednesday to link the Republican Party to some of the most extreme elements of the Tea Party movement, seeking to define all GOP candidates as outside the mainstream by highlighting such Tea Party talking points as ending Medicare and privatizing Social Security.
With lawmakers preparing to head home to campaign during the August recess, Democratic leaders unveiled a website, , seeking to demonstrate that all Republicans are cut from the same cloth as such Tea Party favorites as Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle and Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul.
The Republican National Committee responded by calling the plan the “latest attempt to distract voters from the Democrats’ failing agenda and falling poll numbers.”
